Nathan Gates

Harvest Story: I would like to start off by saying this is not only my first velvet buck, but also my first deer with a compound bow. It was Sep 9th the last day of Arkansas early buck archery season and this guy daylighted at a set I had hung two days prior on Sep 7th. I was at work when the notification came through that he passed by my new stand at 9:00am. I immediately decided I was going to cut out of work early and go sit the afternoon thinking he may come slipping back through in the evening. Sure, enough right as the sun was starting to set, I saw him slip out of some thick underbrush about 50 yards away. He came in to about 25 yards and stopped quartering to and I let one fly. Punched him double lung didn’t go 50.